Tung-Ying Wu

Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIP)

My Survey Responses

Survey Prompt Response
A priori knowledge Accept: yes
Abortion Lean towards: impermissible
Abstract objects Lean towards: nominalism
Aesthetic experience Lean towards: sui generis
Aesthetic value Lean towards: subjective
Aim of philosophy Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept understanding
  • Accept goodness/justice
  • Accept happiness
  • Accept truth/knowledge
  • Neutral towards wisdom
Analysis of knowledge Accept: other analysis
Analytic-synthetic distinction Lean towards: yes
Arguments for theism Accept: design
Belief or credence Accept: credence
Capital punishment Lean towards: impermissible
Causation Accept: counterfactual/difference-making
Chinese room Accept: doesn't understand
Concepts Accept: empiricism
Consciousness Lean towards: functionalism
Continuum hypothesis Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Cosmological fine-tuning Accept: multiverse
Eating animals and animal products Accept: omnivorism (yes and yes)
Environmental ethics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Epistemic justification Accept: externalism
Experience machine Accept: no
Extended mind Accept: yes
External world Accept: non-skeptical realism
Footbridge Lean towards: don't push
Foundations of mathematics Lean towards: constructivism/intuitionism
Free will Lean towards: no free will
Gender Accept: biological
Gender categories Accept: revise
God Agnostic/undecided
Grounds of intentionality Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Hard problem of consciousness Accept: yes
Human genetic engineering Lean towards: impermissible
Hume Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Immortality Accept: yes
Interlevel metaphysics The question is too unclear to answer
Justification Lean towards: coherentism
Kant Lean towards: one world
Knowledge Accept: rationalism
Knowledge claims Accept: relativism
Law Lean towards: legal non-positivism
Laws of nature Lean towards: Humean
Logic Accept: non-classical
Material composition Lean towards: restrictivism
Meaning of life Accept: objective
Mental content Accept: externalism
Meta-ethics Accept: moral realism
Metaontology Accept: heavyweight realism
Metaphilosophy Lean towards: non-naturalism
Method in history of philosophy Accept: analytic/rational reconstruction
Method in political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Mind Lean towards: physicalism
Mind uploading Accept: death
Moral judgment Accept: cognitivism
Moral motivation Accept: externalism
Moral principles Accept: moral generalism
Morality Lean towards: non-naturalism
Newcomb's problem Lean towards: one box
Normative concepts Lean towards: value
Normative ethics Accept: deontology
Other minds Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept adult humans
  • Accept cats
  • Accept fish
  • Neutral towards flies
  • Neutral towards worms
  • Reject plants
  • Reject particles
  • Accept newborn babies
  • Reject current AI systems
  • Neutral towards future AI systems
Ought implies can Accept: yes
Perceptual experience Accept: representationalism
Personal identity Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept biological view
  • Accept psychological view
  • Lean against further-fact view
Philosophical knowledge Accept: a lot
Philosophical methods Accept a combination of answers:
  • Lean towards conceptual engineering
  • Accept formal philosophy
  • Lean towards intuition-based philosophy
  • Lean towards experimental philosophy
  • Lean towards conceptual analysis
  • Accept empirical philosophy
  • Neutral towards linguistic philosophy
Philosophical progress Accept: a lot
Plato Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Political philosophy Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Politics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Possible worlds Accept: abstract
Practical reason Lean towards: Humean
Principle of sufficient reason Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Proper names Lean towards: Millian
Properties Lean towards: classes
Propositional attitudes Accept: representational
Propositions Lean towards: structured entities
Quantum mechanics Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Race Accept: social
Race categories Accept: eliminate
Rational disagreement Accept: non-permissivism
Response to external-world skepticism Lean towards: abductive
Science Lean towards: scientific realism
Semantic content Lean towards: radical contextualism (most or all)
Sleeping beauty Lean towards: one-half
Spacetime Lean towards: substantivalism
Statue and lump Lean towards: one thing
Teletransporter Lean towards: death
Temporal ontology Accept: eternalism
Theory of reference Accept a combination of answers:
  • Accept causal
  • Accept descriptive
  • Reject deflationary
Time Accept: A-theory
Time travel Accept: metaphysically possible
Trolley problem Accept: switch
True contradictions Accept: impossible
Truth Accept: correspondence
Units of selection Insufficiently familiar with the issue
Vagueness Lean towards: metaphysical
Values in science Accept: necessarily value-laden
Well-being Accept: objective list
Wittgenstein Lean towards: late
Zombies Accept: metaphysically possible